Homeschooling Grade Ten
Included here is a sample homeschool checklist for a grade ten student who works independently most of the time. We have also listed the collection of curriculum and materials we may use at some point during the tenth grade. To view a lengthy list of high school electives, click here: http://parentingfreedom.com/high-school
The following list includes extra material that will likely be used in grade eleven.
GRADE TEN HOMESCHOOL SCHEDULE
DEVOTIONS
____ Prayer
____ Audio Bible
MATH (First Term)
____ Saxon Calculus
____ Correct Calculus
PHYSICS (Second Term)
____ Text
____ Secondary Text
____ CD’s
____ GRAMMAR
____ SPELLING *
____ VOCABULARY *
____ WRITING
LITERATURE
____ Primary
____ Secondary
____ HISTORY (Second Term)
____ CANADIAN HISTORY
____ THEOLOGY
____ CONSERVATIVE STUDIES
____ LAW
____ COMMUNICATIONS
FRENCH
____ Rosetta Stone
____ Text
____ Flashcards *
____ Irregular Verbs *
____ RHETORIC
____ APOLOGETICS
GRADE TEN HOMESCHOOL CURRICULUM
DEVOTIONS
Prayer
Audio Bible
(consider memorizing Proverbs)
MATH (First Term)
Saxon Calculus (1 lesson six days per week)
PHYSICS (Second Term or Grade 11)
The Mechanical Universe Introduction to Mechanics and Heat (1985) ~ Olenick, Apostol, Goodstein
Beyond the Mechanical Universe (likely Grade 11 or perhaps Grade 12)
Supplementary Physics Problems
The Feynman Lectures on Physics ~ Richard Phillips Feynman
The Feynman Lectures on Physics: Volumes 1-2 ~ Richard P. Feynman
The Feynman Lectures on Physics: Volumes 3-4 ~ From Crystal Structure to Magnetism and Electrical and Magnetic Behavior ~ Richard P. Feynman
http://www.learner.org/resources/series42.html?pop=yes&vodid=607977&pid=548#
GRAMMAR
ABeka Grammar and Composition Work Text IV Grade 10
SPELLING
ABeka Vocabulary Spelling Poetry IV Grade 10
VOCABULARY
Vocabulary from Classical Roots Book E Grade 11
100 Words Every High School Graduate Should Know ~ American Heritage Dictionaries Editors
ABeka Vocabulary Spelling Poetry IV Grade 10
WRITING
The Institute for Excellence in Writing
High School Essay Intensive: SAT Preparation & College Application Essay Strategies (4 DVDs & CD-Rom)
Page per day (Robinson method)
1 Book Report per month
2 Essays per term
LITERATURE / HISTORY / THEOLOGY
(Note: Grade ten will be different than expected this year since the Veritas Press Omnibus IV will not be ready until next year. At this point, we expect our son to complete grade 10 (IV) Omnibus in grade 11 and grade 11 (V) Omnibus in grade 12. Because he will not get to take grade 12 (VI) Omnibus before graduation, he will study many of the recommended grade 12 (VI) Omnibus books in grade 10.)
Veritas Press Omnibus VI (intended for grade twelve)
Semester 1 ~ Primary (5 days/week)
(have) Paradise Lost (Weeks 1-3)
(have) Leviathan ~ C. Macpherson (Weeks 4-6)
(have) Emma (Weeks 7-8)
US Constitution, Federalist, and Life of B Franklin (Weeks 9-11)
Declaration of Rights of Man (Week 12)
(have) Democracy In America ~ Isaac Kramnick (Weeks 13-14)
(have) Selections from Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era ~ James M. McPherson (Weeks 15-16)
(have) Slave Narratives (Week 17)
(have) Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future ~ Friedrich Nietzsche (Weeks 18)
Veritas Press Omnibus VI (intended for grade twelve)
Semester 2 ~ Primary (5 days/week)
Notes from the Underground (Weeks 1-2)
(have) Moby Dick (Weeks 3-5)
(have) Guns of August ~ Barbara W. Tuchman (Weeks 6-7)
(have) Citizen Soldiers: The U S Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany ~ Stephen E. Ambrose (Weeks 8-10)
(have) Atlas Shrugged ~ Ayn Rand (Weeks 11-14)
The Stranger (Weeks 15-16)
Wasteland (Weeks 17)
Veritas Press Omnibus VI (intended for grade twelve)
Semester 1 ~ Secondary (3 days/week)
(have) Out of the Silent Planet ~ C.S. Lewis (Weeks 1-2)
(have) Perelandra ~ C.S. Lewis (Weeks 3-4)
Sermon on the Mount (Weeks 5-6)
(have) The Legend of Sleepy Hollow And Other Stories ~ William Hedges (Weeks 7-8)
(have) Last of the Mohicans ~ Richard Slotkin (Weeks 9-12)
Emerson: Self-Reliance (Week 13)
Thoreau: On Civil Disobedience (Week 14)
(have) Red Badge of Courage ~ Gary Scharnhorst (Weeks 15-17)
(have) Poetry of Walt Whitman (Weeks 18)
Veritas Press Omnibus VI (intended for grade twelve)
Semester 2 ~ Secondary (3 days/week)
(have) The Picture of Dorian Gray ~ Oscar Wilde (Weeks 1-3)
(have) Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Weeks 4-6)
Sun Also Rises (Weeks 7-8)
The Interpretation of Dreams, Freud—Selections (Week 9-11)
(have) Heart Of Darkness ~ Joseph Conrad (Weeks 12-13)
(have) Death of a Salesman (Week 14)
Letter from a Birmingham Jail (Week 17)
Extra Literature
Of Mice And Men ~ John Steinbeck
Wealth Of Nations Books 1 To 3 ~ Andrew Skinner
Ethics ~ Stuart Hampshire
Critique Of Pure Reason ~ Marcus Weigelt
The Scarlet Letter ~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
Brave New World ~ Aldous Huxley
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich ~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics That Will Be Able to Come Forward As Science With Kant’s Letter to Marcus Herz, February 27, 1772: The Paul Carus Translation ~ Immanuel Kant
Treatise On Human Nature ~ David Hume
Crucible ~ Christopher Bigsby
Grapes Of Wrath ~ John Steinbeck, Robert Demott
Flowers for Algernon ~ Daniel Keyes
Only The Names Remain: The Cherokees and The Trail of Tears ~ Alex W Bealer
The Dark Frigate ~ Charles Boardman Hawes
Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman ~ Richard Feynman
Tomorrow Series #1: Tomorrow, When the War Began ~ John Marsden
The Giver ~ Lois Lowry
The Broken Blade ~ William Durbin
The Golden Compass ~ Philip Pullman
The Subtle Knife ~ Philip Pullman
The Amber Spyglass ~ Philip Pullman
Unnatural Death ~ Dorothy L. Sayers
Lord Peter : The Complete Lord Peter Wimsey Stories ~ Dorothy L. Sayers
2001 Space Odyssey ~ Arthur Clarke
A Canticle for Leibowitz ~ Walter Miller
Summer of the Monkeys ~ Wilson Rawls
The King’s Fifth ~ Scott O’Dell
Three Men in a Boat ~ Jerome K. Jerome
Tuesdays with Morrie ~ Mitch Albom
Out of the Silent Planet (C.S. Lewis Space Trilogy) ~ C.S. Lewis
Perelandra (C.S. Lewis Space Trilogy) ~ C.S. Lewis
That Hideous Strength (C.S. Lewis Space Trilogy) ~ C.S. Lewis
In Search of Honor ~ Donna Hess
Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery ~ Eric Metaxas
Ivanhoe ~ Walter Scott, Graham Tulloch
The Law ~ Frederic Bastiat
Fallen Angels ~ Walter Dean Myers
What Color Is Your Parachute For Teens ~ Richard Bolles
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens ~ Sean Covey
Optional Robinson Literature
Cicero’s Orations ~ Cicero
The Federalist Papers ~ Hamilton
The Heart of the Antarctic Volume 2 ~ Shackleton
Julius Caesar ~ Shakespeare
Of the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals ~ Harvey
United States Historical Documents ~ Various
The Enterprising Americans ~ Chaimberlain
My African Journey ~ Churchill
The War Between the States ~ Stephens
Ivanhoe ~ Scott
A Tale of Two Cities ~ Dickens
The Health Hazards of NOT Going Nuclear ~ Beckman
Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government Volume 1 ~ Davis
Faraday’s Lectures ~ Faraday
Fiat Money Inflation in France ~ A. D. White
Caesar’s Gallic War ~ Caesar
HISTORY
The Student’s Hume: A History of England from the Earliest Times to the Revolution in 1688 ~ David Hume (likely Grade 11)
CANADIAN HISTORY
ADS Canadian Social Studies (History and Government) Grade 10 Complete Set
Canada A National History ~ Margaret Conrad, Alvin Finkel
Readings in Canadian History Post-Confederation ~ R. Douglas Francis, Donald B. Smith
Canada - A Nation ~ Lower & Chafe
Canada : Portraits of Faith
Making History: The Story of Canada in the 20th Century
THEOLOGY
Institutes of Christian Religion Part I (Covenant Home Curriculum) (Grade 10)
Institutes of Christian Religion Part II (Covenant Home Curriculum) (likely Grade 11)
Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist ~ John Piper
CONSERVATIVE STUDIES
Ideas Have Consequences ~ Richard M. Weaver
The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot ~ Russell Kirk
Real Change: From the World That Fails to the World That Works ~ Newt Gingrich
America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It ~ Mark Steyn
America: The Last Best Hope Volumes I & II ~ William J. Bennett
LAW
Law in Action Understanding Canadian Law
COMMUNICATIONS
Secrets of Great Communicators: Simple, Powerful Strategies for Reaching the Heart of Your Audience, Teaching Kit ~ Jeff Myers
Lifepac Electives: Essentials of Communication, Complete Set
IEW Advanced Communication Series (yet to order)
FRENCH
Rosetta Stone French Levels II and III
Quick Study French Vocabulary Flashcards
Irregular Verbs List
Oxford French Grammar
Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary ~ Oxford
Extra French
Pimsleur Express FRENCH
Instant Immersion French Deluxe v. 2.0
RHETORIC
Amusing Ourselves To Death ~ Neil Postman
Gorgias ~ Plato
APOLOGETICS
Apologetics to the Glory of God: An Introduction ~ John M. Frame
Reasons of the Heart: Recovering Christian Persuasion ~ William Edgar
POETRY
100 Best-Loved Poems ~ Philip Smith
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Other Poems ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Complete Poems ~ Walt Whitman
